CoinStats is one of the best known crypto portfolio trackers, and for a lot of people it is the right one. It connects to hundreds of exchanges and wallets and keeps everything in sync automatically.
Moonitor makes the opposite trade. This page is for people weighing the two, and it tries to be fair about both. Details on CoinStats come from its own pricing page, privacy policy and incident report, checked in September 2026.
The difference in one sentence
CoinStats pulls your balances in for you, which means it holds them in its cloud. Moonitor never sees your balances at all, which means you record them yourself.
Everything else follows from that.
Side by side
| CoinStats | Moonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Required: email, Google, Facebook or Apple | None |
| How holdings get in | Exchange API keys, wallet addresses, or manual entry | Manual entry only |
| Where your portfolio is stored | CoinStats' servers | Your own machine |
| Desktop app | Web, iOS and Android; a Mac menu bar widget, no Windows or Linux app | Native app for Mac, Windows and Linux, plus iPhone |
| Pricing | Free tier; Premium is a subscription, from $13.99 a month on its pricing page | Free for up to 5 coins; Pro is a one-time purchase |
What CoinStats does better
Being fair about this is the point of the page.
- Automatic sync. Connect an exchange or paste a wallet address and your balances appear and stay current. Moonitor cannot do that, by design.
- Breadth. Hundreds of exchanges and wallets, dozens of chains, DeFi positions. If your holdings are spread across many wallets and protocols, entering them by hand would be real work.
- Android. Moonitor has no Android app.
If those matter most, CoinStats is a reasonable choice.
What Moonitor does differently
Nobody else holds your portfolio
With CoinStats, your holdings and transaction history sit on its servers, tied to your account. Its privacy policy describes collecting your email, wallet addresses, transaction history, device information and approximate location, and sharing data with advertising partners for marketing.
Moonitor has no account and no server holding your portfolio. The desktop app's only outbound requests are for public prices. There is no central copy of your portfolio to breach.
This is not a hypothetical concern. In June 2024 CoinStats disclosed that attackers had reached its AWS infrastructure and drained about $2.2 million from 1,590 wallets hosted in the CoinStats Wallet. CoinStats says connected exchange accounts and external wallets were not affected, and that it found no evidence of user data being taken. It was handled openly, and it is still a reminder that anything held centrally is a target.
No API keys
Automatic sync runs on read-only API keys and wallet addresses. Read-only keys cannot move your funds, but they do hand a complete, timestamped record of your balances to a third party. Crypto portfolio tracker without API keys goes through that trade in detail.
A real desktop app
CoinStats is used in a browser or on a phone. Moonitor is a desktop app on Mac, Windows and Linux: a window you can leave on a second monitor with live prices from 16 exchanges and price alerts.
One warning while you are looking. Searching for a "CoinStats desktop download" turns up GitHub pages and sites offering installers. They are not from CoinStats, which does not make a Windows or Linux app. Do not run them.
Pay once
CoinStats Premium is a subscription. Moonitor's free version covers up to 5 coins, 1 portfolio and unlimited transactions with no time limit, and Pro, which removes the limits, is a single payment.
Moving from CoinStats
There is no import from CoinStats, because Moonitor does not connect to anything. The quickest route is to enter your current holdings as a single purchase per coin at your average cost, then add new trades as you make them. How to track your crypto portfolio on desktop walks through it, and crypto profit and loss explains how to record trades so the figures stay right.
